Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, celebrated German composer, grandson of the succeeding, born in Hamburg; he began to compose early in life, and his compositions consisted of symphonies, operas, oratorios, and church music; his oratorios of “St. Paul” and “Elijah” are well known, and are enduring monuments of his genius; he was a man universally loved and esteemed, and had the good fortune to live amidst the happiest surroundings (1809‒1847).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mendicant Order * Mendelssohn, Moses